document.getElementByID Not Working in IE 8

Question

I have never done this before so I apologize if I don\'t describe my issue good enough or don\'t use all the right syntax.

What I have on my website is an email form

Answer 1

IE8 is not loading your form_validation.js file and that's why it isn't running your initialization code in that file.

You need to change the type on your script tag to type="text/javascript" or remove the type entirely. You have type="application/javascript" which is not correct.

After further exploration, see Why doesn't IE8 recognize type="application/javascript" in a script tag? for more discussion.